By Zach Grover

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Wilde, Robert. “The 'Black Hand' Played a Huge Role in Twentieth Century History.” Thoughtco., Dotdash, www.thoughtco.com/the-black-hand-serbian-terrorists-1222113.

Sarajevo, June 28, 1914, net.lib.byu.edu/estu/wwi/comment/blk-hand.html.

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https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/wilson-delivers-fourteen-points-speech

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteen_Points

http://www.american-historama.org/1913-1928-ww1-prohibition-era/fourteen-points.htm

Joseph Curry

The role of the Kaiser in the July Crisis, the war effort, and his life after in the Netherlands

Reuters, Thomas. "Engineers Stumble on WWI German Submarine Sunk by 'Sea Monster.'" CBC Radio-Canada. 19 October, 2016.

Khan, Shehab. "Wreckage of Century Old German U-boat Discovered off Scottish Coast." The Independent. 19 October, 2016.

"WWI U-boat Wreck Discovered off the Galloway Coast." Deutches U-Boot Museum. October, 2016.

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Here we have a video "podcast" about the 369th US Infantry Regiment or, as they are better known, the Harlem Hellfighters.  Enjoy!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ttuRNxW6CZjomyXj2DtOOlbPlSltaW5E/view?usp=sharing

The Harlem Hellfighters, from https://www.missedinhistory.com/blogs/missed-in-history-the-harlem-hellfighters.htm

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History, Simple, director. Harlem Hellfighters (World War 1). YouTube, YouTube, 27 Mar. 2017, www.youtube.com/watch?v=7A8eWsFXH5g&t=9s.

Trickey, Erick. “One Hundred Years Ago, the Harlem Hellfighters Bravely Led the U.S. Into WWI.” Smithsonian.com, Smithsonian Institution, 14 May 2018, www.smithsonianmag.com/history/one-hundred-years-ago-harlem-hellfighters-bravely-led-us-wwi-180968977/.

Mikkelsen, Edward. Boley, Oklahoma (1903- ) | The Black Past: Remembered and Reclaimed, 2017, blackpast.org/aah/369th-infantry-regiment-harlem-hellfighters.

The participation of children during the great war. Sources: www.iwm.org.uk/history/10-ways-children-took-part-in-the-first-world-war

Women's fashion during World War I

Harem Pants - Downton Abbey example

Women's fashion catelogue during World War I

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Cunningham, Patricia A.. Reforming Women's Fashion, 1850-1920 : Politics, Health, and Art. Ashland: The Kent State University Press, 2015. Accessed September 30, 2018. ProQuest Ebook Central.

Rabinovitch-Fox, Einav. “[Re]Fashioning the New: Women's dress, the oriental style, and the Construction of American Feminist Imagery in the 1910s.” Journal of Women's History 27, (2) (Summer) (2015): 14-36,194, http://aquinas.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://search-proquest-com.aquinas.idm.oclc.org/docview/1689848825?accountid=8340 (accessed September 30, 2018).

Interesting Battle Rosaries issued to Catholic soldiers in World War 1. They are unlike any rosary in existence today.

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"100th Anniversary of 1916 Military Rosary Inspires New Combat Rosary." Roman Catholic Man. March 22, 2018. Accessed September 19, 2018.  https://www.romancatholicman.com/100th-anniversary-of-1916-military-rosary-inspires-new-combat-rosary/.

"Here's a Sturdy Rosary for Catholic Men." National Catholic Register. Accessed September 19, 2018. http://www.ncregister.com/blog/astagnaro/heres-a-sturdy-rosary-for-catholic-men.

"Historical Replicas | WWI Battle Beads Rosary - $29.99." Rugged Rosaries®. Accessed September 19, 2018. https://www.cordbands.com/pages/battle-beads-rosary.

"WWI Battle Beads® Service Combat Rosary - The Soldier's Rosary." Rugged Rosaries®. Accessed September 19, 2018. https://www.cordbands.com/products/wwimbb-pardon.

 Hugh Lofting's The Story of Doctor Dolittle, Being the  History of His Peculiar Life at Home and Astonishing  Adventures in Foreign Parts (1920).